Meera Sehgal
Education & Professional History
Ferguson College, BA; University of Poona, MA; University of Wisconsin (Madison), MS, PhD
At Carleton since 2005.
Highlights & Recent Activity
“Defending the Nation: Militarism, Women’s Empowerment & the Hindu Right”. In Jennifer Bickman Mendez and Nancy A. Naples (eds.). Border Politics, Globalization, and Social Movements. New York University Press. 2014.
“Mothering the Nation: Maternalist Frames in the Hindu Nationalist Movement in India”. In Kathleen Blee and Sandra Deutsch (eds.). Women of the Right: Comparisons and Exchanges Across National Borders. Pennsylvania State University Press. 2012.
“The Veiled Feminist Ethnographer: Fieldwork amongst Women of India’s Hindu Right”. In Martha Huggins and Marie-Louise Glebbeek (eds.). Women Fielding Danger: Negotiating Ethnographic Identities in Field Research, Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Boulder. 2009.
“Manufacturing a Feminized Siege Mentality: Hindu Nationalist Paramilitary Camps for Women in India”. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Special Edition on Racist Right Wing Movements, Vol. 36, Issue 2, pp. 165-183. 2007.